{"id":3229,"date":"2019-01-31T19:16:26","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T19:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=3229"},"modified":"2019-01-31T19:52:53","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T19:52:53","slug":"zebra-stripes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2019\/01\/31\/zebra-stripes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Zebra Stripes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Materials:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9\u201d x 12\u201d sheet of white construction paper<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9\u201d x 12\u201d sheet of black construction paper<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Glue stick<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;Children\u2019s book with pictures of zebras<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Instructions:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>If your child has never seen a zebra at the zoo, be sure to look for a children\u2019s book about zebras, or google a short video about zebras.\u00a0You can find several on YouTube.\u00a0After seeing several pictures of zebras, tell your child you\u2019re going to make some stripes that look just like zebras!\u00a0Take the black sheet of paper, and holding it lengthwise, demonstrate how to rip the paper in strips, starting at the top and going down to the bottom.\u00a0It doesn\u2019t matter how wide the strips are.\u00a0You may have to help hold the paper at the top when your child is ripping straight down. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When he\u2019s ripped the paper into strips, lay the first strip on the white paper.\u00a0Use a glue stick all the way up and down the strip and stick it to the white paper.\u00a0Take another strip, apply the glue stick, and stick it next to the first strip, leaving a strip of white space in between.\u00a0Continue to glue more strips, being sure to leave some white space in between.\u00a0When you\u2019re done, I think you\u2019ll agree it looks like zebra stripes!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can make tiger stripes by using orange construction paper with black strips of construction paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pinching the paper at the top and tearing it downward is an excellent fine-motor exercise.\u00a0Encourage your child to tear all the strips first.\u00a0Applying the glue is also a pre-writing skill.\u00a0Make sure to apply enough glue stick and press firmly so the stripes stay on the zebra!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 9\u201d x 12\u201d sheet of white construction paper 9\u201d x 12\u201d sheet of black construction paper &nbsp;Glue stick &nbsp;&nbsp;Children\u2019s book with pictures of zebras Instructions:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If your child has never seen a zebra at the zoo, be sure to look for a children\u2019s book about zebras, or google a short video about zebras.\u00a0You can &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2019\/01\/31\/zebra-stripes-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Zebra Stripes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":3230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-and-activities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3229"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3233,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229\/revisions\/3233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}